Numbers in the dark - Brossura

Calvino, Italo

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0544146425 ISBN 13: 9780544146426

Casa editrice: Time Warner, 2014

Riassunto

“Everybody telephones everybody at every possible moment, and nobody can speak to anybody . . . Distance has been the warp that supports the weft of every love story.” — fromNumbers in the Dark
 
Written between 1943 and 1984, the stories in Numbers in the Dark span the career of one of fiction’s modern masters: from Italo Calvino’s earliest fables, to tales informed by life in World War II–era Italy, to the delightful experimentation that would define his later work. Here are speculative stories on life in the digital age, genre-bending wonders, and “impossible interviews” with the likes of Montezuma and a Neanderthal. Deftly translated by Tim Parks,Numbers in the Dark shows off Calvino’s lifelong gift for subtle humor and shimmering philosophical insight.
 
“Numbers in the Dark is a glorious grab-bag . . . [with] enough gems from every phase in Calvino’s career to make it feel indispensable.” —Seattle Times

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"Numbers in the Dark is a glorious grab bag . . . with gems from every phase in Calvino's career." — San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle Bookw Review  "Tim Parks' translation is perfectly in tune with the various dialects and discourses that Calvino assimilated during his career." — New York Times Book Review  "The curious quirks that would shape Calvino's eccentric orbit can be described, along with the exuberant talent and sense of magic that would make that orbit a flaming one." — Los Angeles Times

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• Editore: Time Warner
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0544146425
• ISBN 13: 9780544146426
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 276